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Tigers on the Tenth Day

Zakaria Tamer

1978

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Parable-like stories about power, fear and the taming of a human, like a caged tiger.

Why this book matters

A Syrian master of the short story who lays bare the mechanics of tyranny in terse allegorical parables — so deftly the censors could not object.

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